Bucket of Arrowheads

[Black Dog]

Didn't get the lot that I posted about before, too much $ & felt that I din't know enough about them to risk it. I was able to win a bucket of arrowheads for 80$ As you can see there are about 5-6 axe heads in the bucket with some big piece on top-not sure what it is. The arrowheads are on the bottom of all the heavy stuff. Have to pick it up tomorrow & will post pics later. Any ideas on what that big piece is?

 

[RichPA]

I don't know what the big one is but look forward to finding out and seeing pics of everything.

 

[SouthernGirl]

Can't wait to see what is in the bucket!!!

 

[Tdurre01]

The big thing is a ancient day fleshing board but there is probably multiple uses like to grind things.

 

[Tnmountains]

Well this is going to be fun !!!! Look forward to it.

 

[Black Dog]

Well went to pick up my bucket today & as I was walking out of the house a guy stopped me. He was checking to make sure I had the right items I had bid for& won-was an internet estate sale. He said that his father & him had found all of the items I had & the other lot that I didn't win. Wanting to know more of course where they came from I asked. He said that his dad would go & when he was old enough he would get to go searching for Indian items. He said his dad went in the late 50's & he got to go in the early 60's. Turns out they would search & had the best luck along the Mattaponi River & Pamunkey River. They would start upriver & walk down towards were the rivers meet. I searched on the net & it seems like this about the area of Jamestown/ Yorktown!!
Well I need some help to know what I have.
The big item is made out of stone & is curved- looks like a big piece of bark.
Right below that, the gray stone is I guess a tomahawk- looks like a small axe head. There are a few of them.
A lot of the rocks have dimple in them not sure what for??
Why are some of the arrowheads so small?
Check out the 2 items that are white- looks like teeth?
All 5 pics show all items, let me know if any are good, rare or if you want close ups. Thanks again for helping

 

[Black Dog]

Forgot about the small round disks, there are about a half dozen. They are about a half inch high & look like thich cuts of carrots?? Some of the rocks look like square pegs that have been shaped

 

[Th3rty7]

Looks like you did pretty well, that's a nice collection of eastern Va. artifacts.

"A lot of the rocks have dimple in them not sure what for??"

Some of those are called nutting stones and were made to crush nuts to eat, most of your dimpled pieces look like hammerstones and discoidals.

"Why are some of the arrowheads so small?"

The small triangular pieces are true arrowheads, shot from a bow, and are small for penetration and aerodynamics.

You've got a few questionably paleo looking pieces in that group of arrowheads and those would be your most rare and valued pieces when it comes to flint artifacts.* I just looked at the measuring tape and I think some of the " paleo" pieces I was seeing are more likely woodland and mississippian triangles...still though you cleaned up at that price.

 

[Tnmountains]

You did well. There are some real nice points in all of that. Congratulations

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

For $80 you did great..............

I was at an auction in Missouri 20+ years ago where there were some fluted axes, I did not realize how hard they are to find or I would have kept bidding...They were selling for under a $100 at an auction on a farm that bodered the Missouri river, and found on the farmer's property.......

 

[naturegirl]

Wow, that bucket would have been fun to go through, nice buy!

 

[Tdurre01]

Well you sure did get a extremely good bargian i would say that you have around $5000 to $6000 there but history is priceless.The arrowheads are made from obsidian and are most likely thin and small small like thirty i believe said so they could penetrate easily and be arodynamic the are thin so if penetrate the target they break and it is like shratnel and grinds and kills the target faster and if you dont hit a vital well they will bleed out. The round stones that are like ovals they are used for cracking the nuts in the rocks with small dimples some with the dimples might not be artifacts some might just be from water dripping or water passing over a depression that was already there so erosion may be to blame. the bark like piece is most likely a bowl or a grinding stone to make multiple things like grinding tobacco or making corn meal they also used the oval things for this purpose to help the grinding and crushing. some of those you might want to take to the local university and have them carbon dated some of the arrowheads seem to be older than indians i found some arrowheads a while back and i had them dated they werent indian artifacts but caveman artifacts i thought it would make them worth more but instead extremely less. Also it seems you have some knife blades. Which are worth more than arrowheads some that are in very good conditon are worth around $500-$600 hundred dollars. But then again just depends who you get them from and where you look

 

[joshuaream]

I'd say you did better with the bucket than you would have with the bag of relics you showed earlier.